Do Your Kids Love Playing in the Water? Try These Activities!

Depending upon where you live the summers get really hot and it’s hard to keep your body temperature down. In order to help you out we found this article with over 40 different water summer activities to try. We hope you and your family have a blast trying them all!

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Looking for ways to enjoy summer memories! And what better way than with water! Water is definitely one of the BEST ways for my kids to explore, create, discover and play – always resulting in smiles! So to kick off summer, I’m sharing 40+ Water Summer Activities for Kids this season. Because you never can have too little water play ideas for the kids, right?!

PLAY WATER BALLOON BASEBALL
PAINT WITH ICE – JUST ADD FOOD COLORING
RUN THROUGH A SPRINKLER
GO SWIMMING
MELT ICE CUBES
TOSS SOME SPONGE BALLS
HAVE A WATER BALLOON FIGHT
HAVE A SQUIRT GUN RACE
MAKE HOMEMADE POPSICLES
WASH MOM AND DAD’S CAR
HAVE A WATER GUN FIGHT

Author:About Mark Mathis

Mark Mathis is the co-owner of House Plan Gallery, one of the nation's top home design firms.
Mark has been involved in the home design industry for over 20 years, and holds a B.S. in Finance & Real Estate from the University of Southern Mississippi, and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Louisiana State University.
Mark is a Christian, married to Lesley Mathis, and has three awesome boys - Jake, Ben, & Grant. In his rare spare time, he loves sports, guitars, and doing anything outdoors.

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